Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most difficult hurdle for the Crimson, however, was injuries. Seniors Kevin Sneddon, Brian McCormack and Allain Roy were forced to sit the night out. In fact, Harvard suited up only five blueliners--giving double shifts to sophomore Derek Maguire--and the strain showed...
...strain is beginning to show just a bit. After Holy Cross's 100-75 walkover, Sullivan looked dejected while fielding questions about his team's performance...
...have laid the groundwork for the recent outbreaks. "We've not been too wise over the years," concedes Dr. Dixie Snider of the Centers for Disease Control. Snider points out that almost everything about the science of TB is too old or too slow. Simply diagnosing the resistant strain can take three months or more, and treatment efforts, which succeed only half the time, last an average of three years. It may therefore require a fresh infusion of research funds as well as public health measures to catch up with an old killer that has learned some dangerous new tricks...
California farmers have been fighting other types of sweet-potato whiteflies for years. But the poinsettia strain, so named because it first appeared in the U.S. on poinsettia plants in Florida greenhouses, reproduces twice as fast as its relatives and consumes five times as much food from its victims. It comes originally from somewhere halfway around the world, possibly Iraq or Pakistan, and apparently reached America in 1986, probably hidden away in a cargo shipment...
...interest rates, which ease the strain on debt-heavy companies and may -- or may not -- stimulate borrowing (but also reduce interest income...